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Post by grahamew on Jul 10, 2017 11:34:00 GMT -5
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Post by grahamew on Mar 27, 2018 13:41:48 GMT -5
From ebay: Crow Agency Crow Agency Battle Mountain Sanitarium? Hot Springs resort? One of his photos taken around the time of Wounded Knee? All the above had an 1870s date on ebay but they're clearly later. Maybe 1890 and beyond, since he was there until 1898 (and may have been taking photographs later than this).* Brave Dog. This one is presumably earlier. The text with it says he fought at Little Bighorn, but that may just be the selling point Nice detail showing his bone whistle. Elsewhere, I've seen ca. 1888 for the Crow photos
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Post by Dietmar on May 7, 2018 9:44:23 GMT -5
I don´t know where this picture is from... I think to have seen it on 'Historian's' Facebook site... but to me it looks like a W.R. Cross photo, doesn´t it? Do we know anything about a Two Sword Indian police officer?
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Post by grahamew on May 7, 2018 11:22:33 GMT -5
Edit - see post below
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Post by grahamew on May 7, 2018 11:26:19 GMT -5
It does; it has the same type of name stamp we see on Cross photos and he's on that Stilwell list you posted (many of which are Cross images, though they seem to draw on photos from a 15 year + time span):
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Post by Dietmar on May 7, 2018 11:41:58 GMT -5
Ah, thanks Grahame. So Two Sword possibly was a leading akicita/police man at Pine Ridge. If we had a better version of this portrait by Cross... maybe it would show the same man (?):
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Post by grahamew on May 7, 2018 13:05:50 GMT -5
Sorry. I haven't got a clearer one either
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Post by Dietmar on Oct 8, 2018 10:19:18 GMT -5
Here´s a newly found Cross photo I´ve seen on Ebay... unfortunately no identifications: No. 265 Pine Ridge Agency Indians
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Post by grahamew on Oct 13, 2018 11:46:57 GMT -5
A few more: Sutler's store, Little Missouri - but I've also seen this credited to Haynes as one of his Northern Pacific Views photos Omaha Dance, Rosebud Pine Ridge (guessing this is late 80s - early 90s) That's the same man in the bonnet in the Omaha Dance photo above A better view of Black Horse, Cheyenne, posted earlier in the thread.# Is this the same man who this is named for: plainsledgerart.org/plates/index/35 ? The Hope School, Springfield, Dakota Territory - Santee Agency, established for boys in 1882, but a joint school for girls and boys was built in 1895 Omaha Dance - I'm guessing taken at the same time (late 80s...?) as the two images above.
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Post by Dietmar on Oct 25, 2018 5:14:00 GMT -5
This one taken by W. R. Cross has been buried on my hard-drive for some time before I rediscovered it today. I guess I´ve saved it long ago from an auction site. No. 258 Pine Ridge Agency Indian Same backdrop as No. 265 posted above.
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Post by grahamew on Jan 5, 2019 11:30:05 GMT -5
Another Cross Omaha dance photo taken at Rosebud, 1891:
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Post by Dietmar on Jan 5, 2019 11:58:35 GMT -5
Yes, looks like the Rosebud dance group with Turning Bear (wearing a feather-bonnet) and High Bear.
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Post by Dietmar on May 9, 2019 8:28:35 GMT -5
A newly found picture by W. R. Cross, offered on Ebay: I would guess this not one of the earlier Cross photos. Maybe late 1880s?
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Post by gregor on Dec 8, 2019 8:25:28 GMT -5
Here are some biographical notes on Cross.
William Richard Cross (1839 – 1907)
Cross was born in Vermont in 1839. His older brother, Daniel H. Cross - a former Union Army photographer - taught him photography. In 1867 he married and moved to Omaha, Nebraska. He was one of the first professional photographers to live on the edge of the Great Plains.
From July 1878 Cross spent the next twelve years in Niobrara, Nebraska. Cross photographed Native Americas and belonged to a circle of photographers that satisfied the demand for photographs of Native Americans. From the late 1870s to 1890s he traveled the Reservations in the Dakotas and took hundreds of photographs of native celebrities. He shot series at Fort Randall (Sitting Bull and the Hunkpapa POW), at the Rosebud Reservation (Spotted Tail Agency), at Pine Ridge (Red Cloud Agency) and in surrounding areas.
It is known, that Cross and his family left Creighton in February 1878 for the Spotted Tail Agency. They remained for about 4 months and Cross photographed members of the Brule band and scenes of the agency. Like other photographers Cross was a businessman. These frontier photographers generally operated a studios in their home towns, but traveled with a tent gallery all over the country. Like other photographers he often placed announcements in the newspaper, informing local townspeople when he would be in their vicinity to offer his services. It is known that Cross also distributed his photographs through other entrepreneurs. E.g. Bailey, Dix and Mead marketed the well-known "Sitting Bull PoW" series and L.W. Stilwell photographs with Pine Ridge themes.
In 1886 Cross met in the Niobrara-Valentine area his apprentice John A. Anderson, who became a known photographer in his own right. In 1888 Cross and Anderson moved to Fort Meade near the Black Hills, but stayed only for some months. Later Cross acquired a gallery from a J.W. Pike in Hot Springs, where he lived in proximity to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Around the middle of January 1891 Cross traveled to Pine Ridge where he stayed until the end of the month. His aim was to take photographs of the Wounded Knee masscre site. It is known, that he photographed some military units that still occupied the reservation and some scout units.
At the age of sixty-eight Cross died of pneumonia on December 23, 1907. Cross was survived by his wife Jennie, a son named George, and three daughters, Florence, Cleva and Mrs. L. G. Miller. According to different catalogues about 500 to 600 photographs of Cross are known.
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Post by gregor on Dec 8, 2019 8:27:48 GMT -5
Here som pix marketed by Cross. I start with the Fort Randall photographs The Cross "Sitting Bull PoW" catalogue No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5
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